I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.
Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.
Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.
Baseball is my job, and I love it, but it can't be the only thing I've got going on.
Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.